The Last Adventurer Chapter 40

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Chapter 13. Cross Hunter (1)

One.

There were two instances where adventurers attacked the Mystic Gate.

You can find and conquer it on your own or get help from the above.

By simple calculation, it was advantageous to find and conquer alone, since I could monopolize everything that came out from beyond the Mystic Gate.

Also, if you really wanted to look for the Mystic Gate, it wasn’t that difficult to find.

However, most adventurers took advantage of the help from above, that is, made a contract with the above and attacked the Mystic Gate.

The reason was simple.

That you can get protection from above.

“What is the current gate status?”

So it wasn’t all that strange that the adventurers belonging to the Kania Guild were holding their breath around the orange-grade Mystic Gate that had appeared in the forest near Henesys.

“No problem.”

Of course, their goals were different from those of other adventurers.

“Remember, if anyone else appears, you must eliminate them immediately.”

They weren’t there to protect adventurers beyond the Mystic Gate.

“Not a single one is left behind.”

Eliminating the survivors, that was their goal.

Something that is completely incomprehensible to common sense.

“For the Black Mage.”

But the fact that they were followers of the Black Wizard made it common sense.

The followers of the Black Wizard were such beings.

Madmen who will do anything to revive the black wizard they follow.

That’s why they had no qualms about killing those who barely made it back from hell alive.

“We won’t have anything to do anyway.”

And they had no worries.

“Nir will take care of it.”

Beyond that Mystic Gate was none other than the Serpent Nir, a perfect follower who had never once experienced failure.

In fact, the job of those here wasn’t to clean up the adventurers.

All I do is clean up the place where the poisonous snake Nir left.

It was late at night, in the thick darkness, that the followers of the Black Mage waited silently, without turning on a single light, for the coming of the Serpent Nir.

It was around that time.

Swish!

One of the guards at the Mystic Gate gave a signal with his hand.

At that signal, my colleagues who had been dozing with their eyes closed opened their eyes wide.

A situation where it is difficult to even open your eyes after spending a long night sleeping out in a forest teeming with monsters.

However, there was no sign of sleepiness in the eyes of the followers who opened their eyes.

The venom was seething.

They prepared.

‘If the signal doesn’t come.’

In case the person who just came out is not their colleague.

‘Remove.’

Even if they are your colleagues, be prepared to eliminate them if they don’t give the prearranged signal.

The archer drew his bowstring, and the pirate aimed his gun.

That was when.

sparkle!

Suddenly a light appeared.

It was a tiny blue light. The light emitted by the blue stone that itself emits blue light.

The light disappeared again, then appeared again.

I repeated that eight times.

Only then did the followers who had been aiming the trigger and pulling the bow release their strength.

Because it was a signal.

‘It’s Nir.’

A signal that was agreed upon in advance.

‘It’s all over.’

A signal that the hunt is perfectly completed.

Now at the signal to all relax, everyone relaxed and soon they could see.

“Fire Arrow.”

The flaming arrows flying towards them.

2.

“Ten, confirmed.”

Divo, who had spoken, looked up at the night sky and let out a deep sigh.

“Those guys at the top of Kania are really determined.”

The explanation had already been completed.

That the upper ranks of Kania had been plotting to trap the El Palm party.

Just in case, I left a cleaner like this beyond the Mystic Gate.

There was no question about it.

“Well, that means you were trying to troll at the 100-person gate.”

Because it was clear why they moved.

Rather, there was a separate question.

“But how does the boss not hear these signals?”

El Palm answered that question calmly.

“I asked.”

There was no further explanation.

Because it was true.

‘Using blue stones to send signals is something the followers of the Black Mage often do.’

El Palm knew very well what methods the followers of the Black Mage used.

Much better than them.

So it was easy to figure out.

How many times does it have to flash?

El Palm asked the serpent Nir that before he died.

Of course, the poisonous snake Nir did not answer with his own mouth, but that was not a very important issue to El Palm.

Of course, even if I knew the signal, I didn’t think the situation would be easily resolved right away.

“You’re amazing, thanks to you it was solved easily.”

Nevertheless, the reason the situation was resolved so easily was simple.

“Because I have clairvoyance magic.”

This time, I got a 3-circle magic item called clairvoyance magic from beyond the Mystic Gate.

That was a huge item.

It was incomparably popular with psychic powers. It was understandable, as the results of psychic powers varied greatly depending on the user, and most users only got poor results.

However, clairvoyance magic boasted overwhelming value simply from the fact that it enabled clairvoyance.

Of course, it wasn’t all good.

First of all, there weren’t many magicians who could use it. Clairvoyance was a supernatural ability that could only be used by those with the talent to use psychokinesis or telepathy.

‘The speed at which magic power is consumed is quite fast.’

Also, the magical power consumption was incomparably high compared to that of ordinary 3-circle magic.

At this point, El Palm can only maintain his clairvoyance magic for about a minute at most.

That was only if you used clairvoyance magic. If you used it with other magic? In that case, you wouldn’t be able to use it for even 10 seconds.

That wasn’t all.

“I know that clairvoyance magic is a very difficult magic. Is that okay?”

In some ways, clairvoyance magic was more difficult than telekinesis.

“It’s difficult? Isn’t it so great?”

“Even if you wear glasses with a slightly high prescription, your head starts to hurt. That’s the human eye. But what if you can see through the trees? It won’t stop at just getting motion sickness.”

As Ralph said, the world that appeared the moment he used his clairvoyance magic was completely different from the normal world.

There are many cases where a wizard who uses clairvoyance magic for the first time loses consciousness.

Even after that, there were many cases where people gave up on clairvoyance magic because they could not adapt properly.

But El Palm was different.

He wrote skillfully.

‘Because it’s not the first time.’

El Palm did not bother to tell the truth about that.

‘Using clairvoyance magic.’

That he was as good at clairvoyance magic as he was at telekinesis.

‘I even used the Eye of Horus.’

Even El Palm had used the Eye of Horus, a unique item that possessed the strongest vision magic.

‘Just for a little while.’

Of course, he didn’t have the Eye of Horus.

‘Because the owner was Laura.’

Wild Hunter Laura, one of the executives of the Cross Hunters, only used it briefly in the process of recovering the items she left behind when she died.

Anyway, there was no problem using clairvoyance magic on El Palm.

And the same was true for his colleagues.

“Well, if the boss uses it well, it’s good for us.”

Now they have become a community of shared destiny.

“So, boss, what are you going to do? The Kania top won’t leave us alone.”

A community destined to be pursued by the Chania Merchant, one of the ten Merchant Groups of the port city of Lys.

“Well, nothing has changed. From the beginning, the boss, Kiri, and I were the ones being chased.”

Of course, Devona Kiri, who had already survived the 100-person Mystic Gate, didn’t feel anything about this.

“Wasn’t that in the story?”

The problem is none other than Ralph.

From his point of view, isn’t it a situation where he became hostile towards the upper class of Kania because he was greedy and joined the El Palm party?

It is natural that there are complaints in various ways.

No, it wasn’t just a complaint.

This would not normally be something that adventurers would find strange to do, swinging their fists at El Palm.

So the moment Ralph started complaining, Deivo was ready.

‘There may be a threat.’

Ralph might attack El Palm.

That it might reveal hostility.

“A body being chased from the top of Kania.”

At that moment, Ralph looked at El Palm, and at that moment, when Debo was alerted to the fact, it was El Palm who moved first.

“Give me hazard pay.”

‘boss?’

At that answer, Divo looked at El Palm with a surprised expression.

‘That kind of nonsense… … .’

I turned the upper part of Kania into an enemy, and now I’m being chased, and all you’re saying is that you’re going to beat me up with the word “hazard pay”?

“Okay.”

‘what?’

But Ralph nodded to the suggestion without the slightest hesitation.

‘what?’

From Devo’s point of view, it’s just absurd.

However, things were different for El Palm.

‘Ralph cares about money above all else.’

The Ralph he knows is the one who gave money and even killed the Commander of the Signus Knights for that sole reason.

To him, it didn’t matter whether the Kania top was the enemy or not. All that mattered was whether it made money or not.

In other words, all El Palm needed to win Ralph over was money.

“Boss, just a moment.”

Of course, the more important thing now was not to recruit Ralph.

“But what are we going to do from now on? If we just keep wandering around like this, the Kania Group will kill us.”

It is unlikely that the Kania top, who will soon realize the situation, will just watch the El Palm Party.

“Those guys, they’re definitely the bad guys. They’ll do anything.”

Above all, they were the ones who committed all kinds of ridiculous trolling for my own purposes, for the Black Mage.

They were the kind of guys who would cause a lot of trouble.

“I have to find a guardian.”

So, they had to come under an umbrella that they couldn’t touch.

“If you are a guardian?”

“I have a good guardian.”

Debo was delighted at those words.

‘The Adventurer’s Association? Or the Knights of Signus?’

If you can say that El Palm is good, then you are not an ordinary person.

“Where is it?”

El Palm said to the expectant Devo.

“It’s the top of Gapor.”

3.

The top 10 executives were surprisingly great.

Even famous 5th circle adventurers are raising their voices.

Wherever I go, I have experienced more instances of this than instances of bowing my head.

Of course, I didn’t even pay attention to most things.

‘El Palm.’

However, Ebisu, the executive of Gapor, was having a more difficult time than ever because of one of the 3rd Circle adventurers.

First of all, it was his superior, of all people, who gave the order to recruit him.

‘They asked for ten million mesos.’

In that situation, El Palm’s request was absurd from Ebisu’s perspective.

Actually, there were no problems up to this point.

‘I thought I’d make contact with the top of Kania.’

The problem started the moment El Palm made contact with the top of Cania.

At that time, Ebisu honestly thought.

It’s over.

That was why.

“Ebisu-sama.”

“I have a bit of a headache right now, but if it’s not important, come back later.”

“That’s… …the adventurer El Palm requested a meeting.”

“Bring him right away.”

In response to that request, Ebisu arranged a meeting without wasting a second.

Of course, Ebisu knew this.

‘Something went wrong with the upper part of Kania. That’s why they came to our side. They’re going to negotiate. We’ve got the sword in our hands. If necessary, we’ll negotiate with the determination to throw it away.’

There is no need to show a regretful attitude.

“Ebisu-sama.”

A negotiating table where we sit with such determination.

“I made contact with the Kania top. They said they would give me a deposit of 10 million mesos.”

“Then why didn’t you make a contract with us? Why did you come to us?”

“The Kania top tried to kill me and my party.”

But the moment I heard those words.

“Using the Mystic Gate to intentionally hide the number of wounds.”

At that moment, Ebisu had no choice but to abandon his previous determination in an instant.

‘The top of Kania was trolling.’

The Sleepywood disaster, we now have evidence that can turn it into a planned crime rather than a disaster.

‘You can kill the top of Kania.’

Evidence that can bring down the Kania Top, which is one of the top 10, and can boast of being in the top 3 among them.

“Now the only place I can trust is the top of Gapor.”

Of course, at this moment, there was no choice in Ebisu’s mind.

“Of course, we are like family.”

“Yes, so I would like to sign a contract with Gapor Top.”

To recruit El Palm by any means necessary.

“I’ll give you the best treatment. What do you want?”

El Palm smiled and said to Ebisu, who had only one choice.

“20 million mesos, I want 20 million mesos as a deposit.”

fantasy,